possums should be cuddled and stroked gently as goth rock music plays

"Our differences are not our weakness; they are our superpower." Diversity Is Strength Good night. 🌙

The time has come for me to start consistently enforcing they/them pronouns offline as well as online. I suspect it's going to result in a lot of time feeling like people can't be bothered, but there aren't that many people in my life, so the disappointment will be limited.

I just reduced my my main email inbox by two-thirds and my writing one by about 80%. Needed a mindless task to slow brain to usable speeds. Kind of worked, and the emails look a lot less intimidating now.

Oh, that YouGov survey was fun!! Opinions on the BBC, why yes, I do have some...

That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.

The online market I was part of all November, has ended. Had enough sales to make it worth it, but I was desperately hoping for a couple more. I have worked So Hard on filling up the website. There are over 200 handmade items on there now. All I can do is keep going until I make the right things.

A discussion elsewhere makes me want to talk about "Hope Echoes" in Three Left Turns to Nowhere. It’s a YA novella featuring Fielding Roy, who is trying to get to a nerdy SF convention in Toronto but gets stuck in Hopewell Ontario on the way. Fielding is a gay dude. The plot isn’t that. #BookSky

Metal on metal when I handcuffed @itstroylocke.bsky.social to the iconic Eagle LA chain web last night.

Me: 'I desperately need a night off. I think I've earned a night off. I shall have a night off.' *five minutes later* 'Oh there's that email with a solid four to five hours of thankless, tedious, repetitive work in it. That's my night sorted then.' 🙄 😢

Got to admit I'm quite excited for The War Between Land and Sea. Love Doctor Who, and Russell Tovey is always incredible.

If you see this do it. -Name: Manda -Pronouns: They/Them -Height: 5'4" -Sexuality: Pan -Sign: Capricorn ♑️ -Piercings: 0 -Tattoos: 0 😢 -Fav Colour: Purple 💜 -Fav Drink: Diet Coke -Fav Animal: Ring-tailed Lemur -MBTI: INFP-T Bonus fact instead of picture - I cry when people point cameras at me.

It did not kill me. Definitely going to replace the photos next weekend though. Still getting used to photographing suncatchers. folksy.com/find/item/85...

I will get this brand new thing listed if it kills me, which I haven't ruled out as a possibility...

Just had to ask hubby to stop sorting through Lego for a few minutes because the noise was about to make me cry. I think I'm possibly not completely ok.

Let’s Ride 🤟

Currently ignoring my body's increasingly insistent, 'You have exceeded limits' warnings. Hoping to put the big consequences off for a little while. Going with hubby to a Lego show tomorrow and he's really looking forward to it.

Small setbacks while tired and/or overwhelmed are my emotional regulation kryptonite.

Spent most of today working on a brand new range for the store. Never tired anything like it before. I'm pleased with them, but needed a little reassurance they're good enough. Sadly, this is not where hubby excels. No blame, just one of his neurodivergent quirks, but it's very lonely sometimes.

Folksy are running The Real Deal weekend, encouraging people to shop from small makers this Black Friday weekend. As a small maker (with items in this collection), I very much support this. There are so many talented creators in Folksy. Check it out here. folksy.com/collections/...

I was so beautiful exploring Hashira + Nawajiri with @okboundldn.bsky.social @studio.ma.london open jam

Somehow, an hour disappeared and I've gone from plenty of time to make word count to, holy shit need words now.

I have been busy for a little over 13 hours at this point. I've been sat for a lot of it, but not enough, and at no point has my brain slowed down. Now I can't slow my brain down. Two hours until bed and actively hoping for a crash or and am going to be Awake! when I need to not be.

I am using Mythbusters reruns as overnight background noise at the moment and I just got to the one with Barack Obama on. Genuinely made me stop and think for a moment. That's guy who knowns how to hold authority, and how to speak so people listen. Shit myth request though 😂

Folksy are running The Real Deal weekend, encouraging people to shop from small makers this Black Friday weekend. As a small maker (with items in this collection), I very much support this. There are so many talented creators in Folksy. Check it out here. folksy.com/collections/...

Way overstimulated, definitely getting sick, and jittery as hell. Need to settle down because I have at least five hours worth of stuff still to do, and I'm supposed to be in bed in four. I am both wired and exhausted, so this may not go well.

I actually didn't yell, despite the best intentions of the perimenopausal hormones and their effect on the very last nerve hubby was stomping on. I went and did the washing up. I came back and calmy explained why I was upset. Then we had dinner and watched Angel for a while.

Steller's Jay on a moss covered big leaf maple branch in the last few seconds of this morning's diffused light before the sun broke through the clouds. Peak PNW! Reason #1113 why I L💙VE Steller's Jays. (they were hiding their suet nuggets, their Thanksgiving treat!) #birds #becurious 🪶

Today, I was looking through some of the books of fairytales I taught myself to read with and read as bedtime stories for years. I had forgotten how absolutely beautiful the illustrations are in 1970s and 1980s children's books.

Had a very stressful day. Having a Really Very Stressful night.

I will not yell at my husband just because he deserves it. I will not yell at my husband just because he deserves it. I will not yell at my husband just because he deserves it.

I was right. I wasn't ready. I'm shocked by how little we got done, and very very overwhelmed.

Sup stud ✨

I am in no way mentally or emotionally prepared for today. We're just sorting stuff, but it's stuff that's tough for me to deal with and I am not ok.

Right, time to try and get some sleep. Tomorrow is going to be the first of two mentally, physically, and mostly emotionally hard sorting stuff days, plus I need to get more stuff made and a ton of what I've already made listed and promoted. I just need something to go well. Please.

Blocked the account being abusive to my friend before I could go full feral on them. I don't need to be getting myself banned. That won't fix anything. How fucking dare they!!!!!!

We've got an ancient VW Passat that copes better than this with snow... but my husband knows how to drive, which helps I think.

There are some very pretty humans in Physical Asia, and all of them are incredibly impressive.

I have about a dozen things that must be done before bed. But bed is 10 hours away and I'm 99% sure I'm getting sick, so I'm going to eat chicken and chips with homemade coleslaw, made by hubby, and curl up and watch the first couple of episodes of Physical Asia, and a couple of Angel episodes.

That slightly elevated temperature and tenderness under the jaw on one side isn't going to turn into a thing that fucks me over until January, is it?

I just listed this on my Folksy store. It's almost ridiculously shiny, and it makes me smile. A splash of shine and colour to ward off the dark grey days. folksy.com/find/item/85...

Product descriptions are all finished (until tomorrow or Friday when I make more stuff). Photos are all edited, but not all cropped to size. Elbow has informed me that if I don't put the mouse down it will make me cry, so photo cropping will resume after sleep.

My Christmas wine glass charms made it into the Folksy Christmas Entertaining Guide. First thing I've ever had in one of the site chosen collections.

About halfway through the photos now, and only 2 more product descriptions to write. I've been told several times by other sellers that photo editing and product description writing are 2 things I could use AI for, but I'm so glad I never did. I'm 100x better at it now that I was 6 months ago.

Periodic reminder that you do not 'create things' with AI, you use AI to avoid creating things. You have done nothing. You have learned nothing. You have created nothing. There is no imprint of you in the work. It is worth less than nothing and you wasted a crap ton of electric and water doing it.

Three hours later, photos still not started.

If you don’t understand how disability benefits can be a net economic positive… You don’t understand basic economics. Every £1 you cut from disability benefits, you cut nearly £2 from the economy. And you harm a vulnerable person.

I've really got to stop arguing with dickheads on Facebook, but I would love to know why 'uneducated' is always their go to insult. It annoys me because there's no way to respond without sounding like a prick 😂

Tough on the outside. SO sensitive on the inside. 😈🥵

I would like someone to point me in the direction of a wish-granting entity who can just tell me what it is people will want to buy. Then I can make that.